Re: [tlug] DVD Region Issues

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

> You can read the data directly and avoid using the DVD player software.
> That's my experience.

The drive *firmware* prevents the *hardware* reading a disk that has a
region code that does not match what the drive has been set to. DVDs
with no region code always read fine, of course.

This has been the case on all DVD drives I've tried in the past few
years, though not on any older than that. With the footnote that "all"
is a sample of just two drives, both of which are internal DVD drives in
notebooks.

Darren

>>> +1, even if you buy a DVD media, rip it to your drive and forget about
>>> all the noise of the spinning disk.
>>
>> How can I do that if the disk refuses to read because of the region
>> code? :-)
>>
>> In the DVD drives I've seen the past few years the region locking is at
>> the drive firmware level and you can change the region 3 times then it
>> is stuck forever. That is what I'd like to avoid.